On Monday 29 Jul 2013 07:27:23 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-07-29 7:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up > > first using quickpkg. I'm often in a situation though where many > > important packages are being updated in a world update. Normally, I > > have to manually quickpkg every one of them. > > > > Is there a way to tell emerge to do this on its own? That is, create > > binary packages of every package that it is replacing? > > Add FEATURES="buildpkg" to make.conf...
That way you'll gradually build up a /usr/portage/packages directory with a package for everything installed. Or if you don't want to wait months for that: # emerge -eB world when your box is not too busy. My KDE amd64 box (not ~amd64, for the most part) has 918 packages installed and the .../packages directory occupies 2GB. -- Regards, Peter
